as in maid
a female domestic servant
they hired a housekeeper to help their aging parents live at home
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Recent Examples of housekeeper
Cassidy said she was surrounded by her mom, the couple's housekeeper and childhood friends during the ordeal.
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Jay Stahl, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
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In 1840’s Toronto, scullery maid Grace Marks, 16, is accused of abetting the brutal murder of her employer and his pregnant housekeeper.
—Bailey Seybolt, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Since the disappearance some weeks prior of his best friend, Dr. Watson, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock’s been forbidden from crime-solving by shadowy but definitely murderous forces, who make their presence known to him by way of scarlet threads planted at crime scenes.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Later, Carlo began to attend Mass escorted by the family’s Hindu housekeeper, who would later cite Carlo’s devotion as the inspiration for his own conversion to Catholicism.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Jay Stahl, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
Buy Now 03 of 10 'Alias Grace' by Margaret Atwood
In 1840’s Toronto, scullery maid Grace Marks, 16, is accused of abetting the brutal murder of her employer and his pregnant housekeeper.
—Bailey Seybolt, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Since the disappearance some weeks prior of his best friend, Dr. Watson, and his housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock’s been forbidden from crime-solving by shadowy but definitely murderous forces, who make their presence known to him by way of scarlet threads planted at crime scenes.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2025
Later, Carlo began to attend Mass escorted by the family’s Hindu housekeeper, who would later cite Carlo’s devotion as the inspiration for his own conversion to Catholicism.
—Emily Harnett, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for housekeeper
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Later, a tracking shot outside the Bennets’ house at night glides from window to window, glimpsing the parents, then the sisters in their rooms, and also one of the maids walking up a flight of stairs singing a love song to herself.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Last month, four Ugandan women in maids’ uniforms sent a video plea to an aid group, saying that they had been detained for six months in Saudi Arabia.—
Kiana Hayeri,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2025
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“Housekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/housekeeper. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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